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In September, Health
Link Alberta, the toll-free 24/7
telephone health advice and
information line run by Alberta
Health Services, turned 10
years old. During our first
decade, we answered eight
million calls, advising Albertans from Pincher Creek to
Fort Fitzgerald.

You may have been one of
those callers.

Health Link Alberta is a true
success story because it’s the
first place hundreds of thousands of Albertans turn to for
health advice. They want to
use our province’s health care
system in the best possible
way. And we want to connect
them to the right services and
give them advice on how to
care for themselves and for
their families.

Health Link Alberta is also
successful because many calls
avert costs to our health care
system. Just as importantly,
callers are connected to health
care advice, on average, in 90
seconds, wherever they are.

People call from their kitch-ens, their local hockey rink,The registered nurses whotake our calls are seldomstumped. They have 14,000pages of information at theirfingertips, and instant access tosome of the world’s most-trusted and recommendedwebsites. They can also turnto the thousands of health andmedical experts who workwithin AHS and agencies andorganizations throughout theprovince. In the case of theconcerned farmer and his cows,we didn’t know the answer, butwe quickly put him in touchwith those who did.

We’re very proud to live up
to our name and link you to
whatever health and medical
information you’re looking for,
no matter how unusual.